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CousinIT

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Wed Oct 25, 2023, 12:23 PM Oct 2023

America Mysteriously Hit a Deadly Climate Tipping Point & No One Knows Why [View all]

https://hartmannreport.com/p/america-mysteriously-hit-a-deadly-061

Sometime in the past year, this tiny planet we live on in an obscure corner of our Milky Way galaxy went through some sort of tipping point, a “state change” of sorts, and now things are different from how they’ve been at any other time in the 300,000 year history of the human race.

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— One theory is that variations in dust concentrations in the Northern Hemisphere’s atmosphere — a function of the temperature of the Atlantic Ocean allowing more or less fine dirt to be picked up and carried aloft from northern Africa — are changing the reflectivity of the atmosphere and trapping more of the sun’s heat.

— Another theory follows the January, 2022 eruption of the volcano at Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha’apai, which injected so much water vapor (146 million tons) and sulfur dioxide (420,000 tons) into the stratosphere that scientists were predicting soon after it happened that there would be a year or two of unusual heat signatures across the planet.

— Some scientists argue it was caused by a change in worldwide regulations mandating ships at sea burn cleaner diesel fuel, reducing the soot-type particles they’re emitting that previously formed heat-reflective clouds.

— And, of course, the current El Niño ocean pattern appears to be drawing heat from the ocean up to the surface where it’s transferred to the atmosphere in unprecedented amounts.

But regardless of the why/how, something has definitely happened in the past year or so that has pushed our atmosphere’s state of equilibrium out of an older, stable range and into a newer, warmer, and apparently far less stable state. . . .
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Most people can't imagine the scope of change headed our way. CrispyQ Oct 2023 #1
I posted a thread about The International Day of Climate Action redqueen Oct 2023 #2
Climate change paralysis. Too overwhelming to consider. Feeling any action is cbabe Oct 2023 #5
It can be overwhelming, true redqueen Oct 2023 #6
I just hope... Think. Again. Oct 2023 #4
Thank you. Brenda Oct 2023 #10
We chose to look one quarter ahead instead of seven generations. CrispyQ Oct 2023 #11
So true, Crispy. Brenda Oct 2023 #12
It's gonna be a wild ride redqueen Oct 2023 #3
And Republicans still want to repeal all the climate action legislation passed by the Biden admin LymphocyteLover Oct 2023 #7
most likely a combnation of these effects LymphocyteLover Oct 2023 #8
The solution is an equitable degrowth economy. Voltaire2 Oct 2023 #9
+1000. Exactly, a steady-state economy. yonder Oct 2023 #16
+ 1000 to you too ... just ran into this thread. KPN Feb 2024 #19
To me it's obvious but I'm just an amateur. yonder Feb 2024 #20
Just ran across this thread. Degrowth economy! What an KPN Feb 2024 #18
To be clear(er) we aren't going to implement this. Voltaire2 Feb 2024 #21
425 ppm CO2 IbogaProject Oct 2023 #13
So much heat is already baked in, even if we stopped burning all fossil fuels today, ??? -nt CrispyQ Oct 2023 #17
I would also include war; in the mix as it burns a lot of carbon. Uncle Joe Oct 2023 #14
The Last Days of Pompei bucolic_frolic Oct 2023 #15
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